If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literatu...
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
The comic book world is a tough business.
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or w...
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the mos...
The best movies are simple.
They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money i...
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amaz...
I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated...
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
My family, my parents are hippies.
You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he...